Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.16.2007
We zoom to the grate -- by the way, this is the second time in the episode that we have focused on how it leads out and down -- and Lechero's voice falls away. We see a guy listening in the dark. Then we zoom back up to Lechero, who is busy explaining to Michael, "Here, there is a system. And that system means order." Political philosophy or Container Store slogan? You be the judge. Michael asks what happens if he refuses to fight. Lechero lets him know that's not an option.
Michael asks, "Do you always set up your fights?" Lechero lies about how he had nothing to do with it, and Michael quickly replies, "Yet the only person in here who has a problem with me is you." Outside the door, T-Bag, Bellick, and Mahone look at one another and ask simultaneously, "What am I, chopped liver?" Inside, Lechero basically admits that he's so very jealous of Michael's fame as an international fugitive.
We return to the guy in the sewers having a sit-down and a good think. He's on one side of a wall, and Bellick is on the other. The former CO is down there burning all the fecal waste he and Stringy collected back in the happier times when there were two people to bear the brunt of the prison's collective scorn. The guy whistles Bellick over. He limps through the raw sewage. I try not to think about how many different drug-resistant bacteria are probably entering his bloodstream as he goes. That man is either going to end up with an immune system to rival T-Bag's, or he's going to be the starring exhibit in a World Health Organization conference on emergent pathologies.
Anyway, Bellick limps over to the hole in the wall, and the guy on the other side asks (in an Australian accent), "Think you can do me a favor?" Bellick cordially invites the guy to get bent. The guy replies hoarsely, "I can feed you." Now Bellick is all ears. And mouth -- he demands food first, favor second. The guy hands over a pale slab of something. Bellick shoves it in his mouth and chews, grunting, "Chicken." The other guy is like, "...right. Chicken it is." He'll give Bellick more mystery meat, but Bellick has to run an errand involving two pieces of paper. We don't get any more detail than that.
Meanwhile, Linc is brooding somewhere in scenic downtown Panama when he gets a phone call. It's L.J.! We learn that he's in Panama. Linc is instantly less happy to hear from his son, and more worried. He stammers, "How did you get this number?" and L.J. replies, "I -- I ran into Sara. She got this number from the consulate." All those who had the diplomat pegged as a stooge of the One World Conspiracy, raise your hands. Right then, L.J.'s connection begins to crackle with static, but the upshot is, Linc is supposed to meet L.J. and Dr. Sara in the restaurant at the top of the Garfield Price building at 8:30 PM that evening.